Robert Favre : «Medico-topography » in lyon in 1783. The growing medical concern for the problems of urban police and administration accounts for Berthelet de Barbot's Topographie médicale of Lyon. This forgotten work provides information on the conditions of the «workers » (as distinct from the «Lyonnais »). The proposed remedies for improving conditions in a town subject to both floods and epidemics indicate a lucid but timid mind. He demonstrates the dangers of overcrowding, urban burials and the state of the roads, he wisely recommends the rational paving of the streets (studied by the Lyon doctor Bertholon in 1786) and the construction of thoroughfares between the Saône and the Rhône. But with surprising reticence he proposes merely sops to improve the habitat, despite the engineer Perrache's transformation of the town, and he seems ignorant of the debate among Lyon doctors since the Royal Ordonnance of 1776, concerning the best burial place.

Jean Theodorides : Five letters from d'alembert to the société royale de médecine. These five letters, dating from 1777 and 1779, concern the treatment of rabies, a problem with which the Academy was particularly concerned. One dangerous remedy was the application of blister beetles, also to be taken internally. As Frederick II had advised their use in Prussia, d'Alembert wrote to him in 1777 for information. The first four letters inform the Society of the result, while the last (1779) reflects his interest in the activities of the Society and in medecine in general.